History for August 14

History for August 14 - On-This-Day.com
Russell Baker 1925 - Newspaper columnist, David Crosby 1941 - Singer, musician (Crosby, Stills and Nash), Steve Martin 1945 - Actor comedian


Gary Larson 1950 - Creator of "The Far Side", Earvin "Magic" Johnson 1959 - Basketball player, Tim Tebow 1987 - Football player

1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tunis was signed on board the USS Constitution.


1896 - Gold was discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory. Within the next year more than 30,000 people rushed to the area to look for gold.


1900 - An international force, consisting of eight nations, lifted the siege of Peking. It was the end to the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.


1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The act created unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.


1947 - Pakistan became independent from British rule. 


1953 - The whiffle ball was invented. 

Black Pastor Declares Trump to Be 'Most Pro-Black' President In Our Lifetime

Black Pastor Declares Trump to Be 'Most Pro-Black' President In Our Lifetime:

He noted that he is now 60-years-old, so he’s seen a good number of both Republican and Democrat administrations.
What was said next, will really send the left into a tizzy.
Scott declared Trump to be “the most pro-black president we’ve had in our lifetime.”

The way we were-----Dionne Warwick - That's What Friends Are For

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Feinstein’s Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than An Alleged Office Spy

Feinstein’s Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than An Alleged Office Spy
"Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s warm relationship with and advocacy for Communist China go back decades and involve millions, if not billions, of dollars.
“I sometimes say that in my last life maybe I was Chinese.”—Sen. Dianne Feinstein
As media, intelligence agency, and political scrutiny of foreign meddling is seemingly at its apex, a story with big national security implications involving a high-ranking senator with access to America’s most sensitive intelligence information has been hiding in plain sight.
The story involves China and the senior U.S. senator from California, and former chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Democrat Dianne Feinstein.
It was buried eight paragraphs into a recent Politico exposé on foreign efforts to infiltrate Silicon Valley, as a passing example of political espionage:
Former intelligence officials…[said] Chinese intelligence once recruited a staff member at a California office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, and the source reported back to China about local politics.
(A spokesperson for Feinstein said the office doesn’t comment on personnel matters or investigations, but noted that no Feinstein staffer in California has ever had a security clearance.)
Later comes additional detail..."
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Grand Traverse conservancy raising $71 million to guard against development | Crain's Detroit Business

Grand Traverse conservancy raising $71 million to guard against development | Crain's Detroit Business:

• Organization seeks funding to protect more land
• Targets lake and river shoreline parcels, wetlands, orchards
• Popular tourist region attracting commercial, residential growth

"The Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy aims to protect land from increaseing development in the counties around Traverse City.
An organization that shields high-value farm and natural lands from development in five northern Michigan counties is kicking off the public phase of a $71 million campaign to protect additional parcels.
...Some would be purchased outright, while others would be preserved with easements that permanently limit development.
The organization has raised $53 million from foundations and individual donors, it said. 
It hopes to raise an additional $18 million from the public."

2nd city tries to tell state how to run gun law

2nd city tries to tell state how to run gun law:

A second Washington city has decided to tell the state how to run its gun laws and now is in court because of the decision.
WND reported last month that Seattle was being sued for imposing a gun “safe storage” requirement on residents that goes beyond what state law allows.
Now the Second Amendment Foundation says the city of Edmonds is being sued over the same issue.
The foundation is joined by the National Rifle Association in the case over the state’s 35-year-old preemption statute establishing the state’s authority to set gun rules.

The Media Are Hiding Their Knowledge and Duplicity – Buzzfeed, WaPo and New York Times Had Unredacted FISA Application For Over A Year… | The Last Refuge

The Media Are Hiding Their Knowledge and Duplicity – Buzzfeed, WaPo and New York Times Had Unredacted FISA Application For Over A Year… | The Last Refuge

"We shared a discussion thread several months ago about how the media are enmeshed within the story of the DOJ and FBI corruption. 

However, only recently did we discover the media engagements were not just pervasive, they were/are participatory.

As a consequence the same media cannot reasonably report on any aspect of the story without exposing their own duplicity; their only choice is to double down on lies they helped create and promote.

In preparation for explosive developments soon to reach critical mass CTH strongly urges everyone to think carefully about these recently discovered empirical truths:

#1) The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had the full, unredacted, FISA application on Carter Page since March 17th, 2017.  Think carefully about that. Think about what every member of that committee has said since March 17, 2017.

#2) With the leak of the Top Secret FISA application, by James Wolfe to Ali Watkins, Buzzfeed, The Washington Post and New York Times have had the full, unredacted, FISA application in their possession since March 17th, 2017.  Again, think carefully about that.  Think about all of their reporting since March 17, 2017.

#3) As a direct consequence of #1 and #2 – The media have deliberately, and with specific intent, falsified their reporting and kept the truth hidden which would undermine their false reporting.  Again, think very carefully about the ramifications.

The media’s role in the DOJ/FBI corruption scandal is not only pervasive, it’s participatory.

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In ruling against Planet Fitness, Michigan court concludes trans women aren’t women – ThinkProgress

In ruling against Planet Fitness, Michigan court concludes trans women aren’t women – ThinkProgress:
"A Michigan appeals court has ruled that transgender women are not women and that a former Planet Fitness customer has a legal case against the chain of gyms.
The case dates back to 2015 when Yvette Cormier saw a transgender woman — whom she described as a “man” — in the women’s locker room of her Midland, Michigan Planet Fitness.
She complained to management and warned other customers, which prompted the gym to cancel her membership for “inappropriate and disruptive” behavior.
Cormier sued Planet Fitness for over $25,000 in damages, alleging that she suffered a violation of privacy, as well as embarrassment, humiliation, severe emotional distress, and damage to her reputation.
A Michigan lower court ruled against her and last year, a state court of appeals agreed that she suffered no intrusion of privacy.
...“Plaintiff’s actions indicate that she strongly preferred a locker room and a restroom in which individuals who are assigned biologically male are not present,” the court wrote...
In other words, the court agreed with Cormier’s perspective that transgender women are not women...
The decision again tosses the case back to the lower court for further examination..."

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Universal basic income program fails in Ontario - Washington Times

Universal basic income program fails in Ontario - Washington Times:

For the Ontario pilot, only low-income folks participated, and their benefits replaced unemployment insurance, the state pension and disability payments.
The government cited the program’s high cost when announcing the termination. This shouldn’t be a surprise. A similar program in the United States with a 50 percent marginal tax on earned income would cost about $250 billion per year if operating nationwide (assuming no adverse consequences of taxation). Get rid of the tax, and it would cost just shy of $1 trillion per year.

REPORT: White Supremacist Leader in Charlottesville Jason Kessler Was Obama Supporter - Occupy Protester

REPORT: White Supremacist Leader in Charlottesville Jason Kessler Was Obama Supporter - Occupy Protester
"White supremacist and ‘Unite the Right’ leader, Jason Kessler, was once reportedly a supporter a former President Obama and the Occupy movement.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (an organization that is certainly no friend to Conservatives), Kessler revealed his political transformation around November 2016, the same month then candidate Donald Trump won the presidential election.  

Southern Poverty Law Center reports:

Rumors abound on white nationalist forums that Kessler’s ideological pedigree before 2016 was less than pure and seem to point to involvement in the Occupy movement and past support for President Obama.

At one recent speech in favor of Charlottesville’s status as a sanctuary city, Kessler live-streamed himself as an attendee questioned him and apologized for an undisclosed spat during Kessler’s apparent involvement with Occupy. Kessler appeared visibly perturbed by the woman’s presence and reminders of their past association...

On Sunday, a violent leftist mob shut down a press conference by white nationalists Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler outside of Charlottesville City Hall.

The mob reportedly chased Spencer and Kessler back to their waiting vehicles..."

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#1 Movie this week 1986-----The Fly (1986) Trailer